Cutting even 1 teaspoon of salt from the typical American diet each day can lower blood pressure just as much as hypertension medication can, even for those who don’t have high blood pressure (BP), a new JAMA study found. Just 1 week of a low-sodium diet resulted in an average 8mm Hg reduction in systolic blood pressure vs a high-sodium diet. The study assigned 213 people ages 50 to 75 to either a high- or low-sodium diet. …
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